openmotif to be removed from Fedora October 2, 2006

[Patrice Dumas]

On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:25:18PM +0100, José Matos wrote:
> On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:48, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 
>   If we take the word that openmotif is essentially the IBM Public License (as 
> described in the openmotif forum), that license is incompatible with the GPL 
> so for those projects above we would need the license to be amended with that 
> exception or the final result is not distributable.

As long as it is only linked dynamically (which means that those packages
are not shipped with openmotif, but separately), there is no licence issue.
As another example, you can link dynamically GPL apps against a proprietary 
libc and redistribute the binaries.

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Pat